Don't even get me started on the fact you can't just replace a fucking battery anymore.
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Gotta keep that IP68 rating!
There are ip68 seals for phone frames so you can open it to replace the battery
Pretty sure that has almost nothing to do with it.
There are other non-smartphone consumer electronics with IP68 and user replaceable batteries.
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The irony of the meme being that the food critic ends up loving Remy's ratatouille. Meaning Bluetooth would bring him to a simpler time like the ratatouille did in the movie
Back when he grew up just listening to music rather than being a bitter adult worrying about bitrates.
When I was a kid, I used to drop my CD rips down to a 32,000kHz sample rate to make the WAV files smaller, because I couldn't figure out MP3s yet. Adult me is horrified by the notion. But back then, sounding good enough was acceptable.
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Pretty much exactly that lol
this was my exact experience tbh. I hated the idea of Bluetooth headphones, I had tried some 5ish years ago and they were horrendous, even though they were a relatively high end pair. last year I said fuck it and got another high end pair, and I love them. ldac capable, so it's 990kbs so I don't have any complaints at all about the sound, and the probability is great and I don't have to worry about charging them nearly as much as I assumed I would.
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Same goes for SD card readers! I don't want to pay extra for storage I already have!
There's barely even an excuse for it, as most of these phones have a dual SIM tray and one of those can be a dual SIM/SD slot. It's just enshittification so they can upsell $25 of storage for a $200 model upgrade.
This. I have an s20FE which is one of the last samsungs to keep the microsd slot. I'm considering very carefully what I should get for my next phone and this is one of my most wanted features, besides 3.5mm aux.
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My last phone purchase went something like this:
"What phones do you have with a headphone jack?"
"Uh, I don't think any. Maybe one? I'd have to look."
"I'll take that one."
"But we--"
"Only spec that matters is a headphone jack."
"There's bluetoo--"
"Headphone jack."
Gotta look for either a budget or non-major brand phone. I went with an Asus phone for my last upgrade (previous was an LG V60). Sony Xperia and some of the Chinese 'gaming' phones also have them.
Yep a bottom of the barrel phone from a no-name brand will still have an audio jack...
But the fucking Pixel line doesn't. Pixels are the only real non-dogshit phone if you want a secure OS.
Sometimes you have to choose between two important things.
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let me use a goddamn headphone, Jack
Bluetooth is amazing, don't get me wrong. But it doesn't always work and it's hard to figure out why something won't connect. Plugging something works every time.
Plus most Bluetooth modes have horrendous latency, which is jarring when playing a mobile game.
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For those who are looking, the Sony Xperia line has a number of phones with both an sd card slot and a headphone jack.
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I need a new phone and I want to cry because it is seeming that the Pixel Pro with Graphene is the best I can do. New phones fucking suck, It' not about "I need the MAXIMUM PRIVACY 90000" it's "I want some control, I'm not buying a Samsung ever again due to the mountain of irremovable bloatware"
For real. Samsung's sheer quantity of bloatware on every phone is ridiculous. It's the primary reason I'm never buying from them again, aside from just plain old privacy concerns.
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let me guess, you're also an Arch user? 😏
I wish I had the gall to switch off windows 😞
Get some gall then!
Yesterday was the best day to switch but today is fine too!
You're right! End of this month then!
The only thing stopping me is losing all my photos and music saved to hard drives, I worry about file compatibility.
Photo and music file types should be fully compatible.
I'd recommend though snagging an extra hard-drive to back up your files even if you don't switch.
If you've got your files in only one location you have them in no locations.
File compatibility wouldn't really be a problem, just make sure not to nuke any partition. If you're using ntfs you might need to install the drivers, but it's pretty straightforward
You can create a bootable USB stick (so-called "Live USB", which is the same thing you can later use to install the OS). Then you can test file compatibility and whatever else you want, while booted into that, without committing to the install.
I'm in the middle of switching to Linux. I'm dual booting so I can still use Windows when I need to or run into issues. If you install something like Mint you'd be surprised how easy it is. Not only that, in a lot of circumstances it runs better than Windows because of all of the bloatware that comes with Windows. If you're afraid to switch but have enough hard drive space I highly recommend dual booting to test the waters. These days I end up using Linux more than Windows.
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See, this might be ok if there were two of them. But now when the battery gets low you are required to stop listening.
I see your point but, isn't this more cumbersome than wired earbuds/headphones?
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So sick of Nintendo doing stuff like this. Releasing the GBA SP and requiring a dongle to use headphones? What if I need to charge during a session of Final Fantasy Tactics Advance? This will never catch on.
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It's a real tragedy how basically nothing new these days comes with a headphone jack anymore.
It feels like phone reviewers only know 3 phone brands and half of them are Apple. Some great phones still have headphones jacks and expandable storage. I use a Sony Xperia 6.
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im so tired of crappy usb-c dongles that stop working if my phone moves at all and bluetooth earbuds with shit battery i might just get an sd card with massive storage and use my old nintendo ds as a music player
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I, unfortunately, switched to a phone without a headphone jack. I hope to be able to switch back in a few years when I need a new one.
I've found that bluetooth headphones are about just as cheap as wired ones and being free of the cable makes a big difference.
Washing dishes? Don't have to worry about your phone being to far away from you.
Laying in bed? Don't have to worry about headphones getting pulled out of your ears because you rolled over.
Yea it’s a good thing the batteries in them are made of fairy dust that just appears and disappears with no problems whatsoever.
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For the same price wired headphones have much better sound quality than wireless ones. They are built with less expensive parts and software.
The tiny batteries in small wireless earbuds makes them disposable, after a few years.
I own have owned lots of different wired and wireless headphones. My two over ear wired headphones need a new ear cushion every couple of years or a new cable per decade, but they last and last. My wireless headphones have either become unusable because of dead batteries or one part of an overengineered device breaking.
My two wired overhear headphones have cost less together than my one nice Bluetooth overhear headphones and have outlasted it by a decade.
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